What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

Features A brief history of computer programming languages. Which do you use? Simon Raik-Allen ABC Technology and Games Updated 17 Jan 2013 (First posted 11 Jan 2013) ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last ...

If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there's a good reason: It's true. Recently, many big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming and ...

National Museum of American History. When Computer Programming Was ‘Just Like Planning a Dinner. Women were encouraged to seek employment in computing by appealing to traditional domestic roles.

Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming ... and the National Museum of American History is fortunate to have objects and archival papers of two highly accomplished computing professionals ...

TIME spoke to Ensmenger about how computer programming evolved into the male ... and partly because it wasn’t a field with an established history; it wasn’t a male dominated field so there ...

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? Credit...Joseph C. Towler, Jr. Supported by By Clive Thompson As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s ...